“I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.’ So he got up and went to his father.” (Luke 15:18–19, NIV84) When people […]
01/16/2023 Daily Devotion – Have you come to your senses?
“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!’” (Luke 15:17, NIV84) This verse is a quote from the Prodigal Son. You remember, the one who couldn’t wait for his inheritance. He needed to get out from under […]
01/15/2023 Daily Devotion – Let’s diligently seek and find the lost among us!
“Suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell […]
01/14/2023 Daily Devotion – Have you maintained your ‘saltiness’?
“Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?” (Luke 14:34 NIV 84) Salt has a purpose. Actually, it has several purposes. One in particular is its ability to season foods. Salt has a particular flavoring ability to enhance the taste of many foods. Salt sits in the […]
01/12/2023 Daily Devotion – ‘…but you were not willing!’
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” (Luke 13:34, NIV84) When Jesus spoke these words Jerusalem was the religious capital of Judaism and had […]
01/11/2023 Daily Devotion – Does Jesus Know You?
Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?” He said to them, “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be […]
01/10/2023 Daily Devotion – The Kingdom of God is like…
“Then Jesus asked, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches.’ Again he asked, ‘What shall I compare the […]
01/09/2023 Daily Devotion – What is lawful on the Sabbath?
“The Lord answered him, ‘You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from […]
01/08/2023 Daily Devotion – Not Peace, but Division!
“Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, […]
01/07/2023 Daily Devotion – Be Ready!
“’Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.’” (Luke 12:35–36, NIV84) We may not know when Jesus is returning, but we know that He is returning […]
